A 4-hour workshop taught by Mary Ann Coughlin, D.P.E. Register Overview Factor analysis is a statistical technique commonly used to establish evidence of survey instrument validity. Exploratory factor analysis explores the relationships among variables to discover if those variables can be grouped into a smaller set of underlying factors. Often researchers and applied practitioners are faced with the difficult task of summarizing numerous variables from a survey and want to reduce the data into a smaller set of factors. The workshop will…